Terry Evans – What is karma?

Some time ago, my wife and I celebrated her and her son’s birthday at a restaurant in Lindesberg, Lasse Maja, together with the family. It is a good restaurant with a nice environment and just a friendly place to be. However, the following day we discovered that they had charged us for three meals instead of four. We looked at one another and thought “hm”. In that moment, we were given the choice to be honest or not to be honest. Should we contact the restaurant and tell them about the mistake that had been made and pay for the meal? My immediate reaction was: “Of course!” I am sure that if we had decided not to do so, there would be some form of payback. We could meet something that would perhaps not be so pleasant, for example someone trying to cheat us out of money. Hence the old saying “What goes around, comes around”.

For me, the universal law consists of whatever action we take, negative or positive. We have a saying in England: “Honesty is the best policy”. Whether we are dishonest in thought or in action, it will always come back to us sooner or later. Whatever good we do will come back to us as well, but not for reward, recognition or prestige. It must truly come from our heart. It will never come back to us in the way that we expect it to, whether it is positive or negative.

I believe that we, in many respects, are and have been the source or creator of what we meet in our lifetimes. Sometimes we say: ” Why do people who do terrible things get away with so much?”They do not, because the wheel of karma never stops turning. What I have witnessed as a medium is that when people pass over, they are shown their negative and positive behaviours. However we acted on Earth, if it was wrong and it affected others: we will have to confront it in another incarnation if we choose not to deal with it here.

The rule of karma knows no boundaries and does not recognize barriers. From the moment we commit a dishonest act it reaches out to many different levels of consciousness, and it always knows where to find us. My spirit guide Ascala, for example, will always point out to me when he thinks I go in the wrong direction or commit a dishonest act. He has many different tools in his bag to trip me up, to make me stop and think. That is necessary for people from time to time. Things happen when we least expect them to and that awakens us. However, if we do not listen and choose to ignore it, we will fall flat on our face. We will then meet the same situation again and again until we take responsibility for our actions.

When visiting the spirit world, my guide Ascala has shown me how people are met when they arrive on the other side. Even then and there we are given the opportunity to reconcile ourselves to the good and the bad that is within us. We are given many chances to redeem ourselves. However, should we decide to remain in denial and ignorance, the hole will only become deeper and blacker. For me, spirituality cannot be bought, it must be earned.

Have I reached that point of spirituality? I have no idea, really. All I can do is meet one day at a time, and at the end of each day reflect on my behaviour and the decisions made. Sometimes, there are dark clouds and thunder, but the sun shines through these clouds when I realise that I could have done better. That is when we can make a promise to do it better next time we meet this situation.

The key to good karma is self-realisation and action, not just words. Words without action are meaningless. So next time you are confronted with a situation where you can choose to be honest or dishonest: THINK before deciding, think “what am I doing to myself?”, because one day, you and I will not be able to escape the far-reaching wheel of karma.